Blaxland Productions Ltd

16/11/2017

Last night's Front Row on Radio 4 had a feature on the 'voices behind the puppets' -

Arts news, interviews and reviews.

02/08/2017

June Foray, voice artist, 1917-2017

June Foray quickly corrected anyone who, albeit flatteringly, described her as 'the female Mel Blanc' saying that he 'was the male June Foray'.

Her best known role in the USA was as the voice of the spy Femme Fatale (pictured) and Rocket J Squirrel, both were characters in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show.

Other roles included the cat Lucifer in Disney's Cinderella, Woody Woodpecker's niece and Granny the owner of Sylvester and Tweety Bird.

For Hanna-Barbera she worked on Tom & Jerry, Scooby Doo, The Jetsons and The Flinstones.

Other roles included the voice of the doll Chatty Cathy, computer games, and comedy LPs with Stan Freberg.

06/03/2017

What happens when the computer that's responsible for your station output packs up?

This ....
https://radiofail.wordpress.com/2017/02/27/computer-playout-frozen-fail/

Visit the post for more.

27/02/2017

Moving office tomorrow, keeping the plastic crate company in business today

22/02/2017

Spotify and Group M have published details on how streaming media is consumed and what listeners expect from it.

Called 'The Streaming State Of Mind' the report confirms that listening to streaming audio is, like radio, an individual activity. There is a one to one relationship between the consumer and the provider and you are literally inside the listeners head.

People who take the free subscription option for services like Spotify have relatively little resistance to hearing commercials. They have taken the option to hear them rather than pay for an 'ad free' service.

There's an interesting thought on tailoring scripts and sound design to how and where they are being listened to. Listening on headphones while in the gym, or in the car or on speakers at home are 'very different tasks and require different types of messaging', i.e. different creative.

There is no suggestion that you can do this just yet - but if we can directly target (eg) drivers on the school run e could this could be really exciting.

https://www.groupm.com/news/spotify--groupm-study-consumer-mobile-streaming-behavior

21/02/2017

Steve Hewlett, presenter of The Media Show on radio 4, has sadly passed away after suffering cancer of the oesophagus. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39027583

The journalist had movingly shared his experience of coping with cancer on BBC Radio 4.

17/02/2017

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10/11/2016

radio news and news about radio

21/09/2016

september newsletter

Legals, Terms and Conditions, Ts & Cs  – the audible small print at the end of a radio commercial, love them or loathe them we wouldn't get on air without them. We got in touch with the Radiocentre to check if we could find the U.K. radio commercial with the longest legals. Many thanks to Judith Spi...

16/08/2016

August

Heart FM finally had a winner for the 'Who's On Heart' competition. The mystery voice game ran for 11 months and there were over 1700 incorrect answers. The three voices that were eventually identified correctly were: Ben Miller, Stevie Nicks and Nigel Kennedy.

20/04/2015

Exciting news! We've been nominated for three VOX Awards.

If you fancy voting for Blaxland give the link below a click:

http://www.voiceovers.co.uk/voxawards2015/

We created Voiceovers.co.uk back in 1998 and amongst other things, it's our aim to feature the best UK voices who are available for commercial producers.

06/10/2014

It's a soggy Monday morning in London but spirits are in the sky at Blaxland. We're all bopping around to the Pride soundtrack like a load of 80's idiots.